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Playing with Books in John Bale's Three Laws
(English Association, 2013)
It has become something of a critical commonplace to talk about John Bale's deep ambivalence about drama as a representational practice. Using drama against itself, Bale, in the words of recent criticism, seeks to expose ...
The psalms and the English Reformation
(2015-01-01)
Presbyterian Imitation Practices in Zachary Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzars Fierie Furnace
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2013-06-14)
The university administrator, preacher and poet Zachary Boyd (1585–1653) relied heavily on epithets and similes borrowed from Josuah Sylvester's poetry when composing his scriptural versifications Zion's Flowers(c. 1640?). ...
From grief to leisure: "Lycidas" in the eighteenth century
(2016-03-01)
© 2016 by University of Washington. Milton's elegy for Edward King was widely admired and imitated in the eighteenth century. These imitations tend to celebrate the poem as an ornamental, musical work while suppressing its ...
Hubbub and satire
(2016-02-01)
"Looking all lost towards a Cook's guide for beauty”: the art of literature and the lessons of the guidebook in modernist writing
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)
This article explores the impact of the guidebook, especially the Baedeker series, on modernist literary culture. It argues that the guidebook is a literary phenomenon in its own right and that, as such, it attracts special ...
The Semaines' Dissemination in England and Scotland until 1641
(Wiley: 24 months, 2011-08-05)
This article tracks the reputation of Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas's Semaines (1578, 1584 et seq.) among readers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Scotland. The Semaines were initially mentioned in print ...
Remediating Affect: "Luclyn" and Lesbian Intimacy on YouTube
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-06-27)
This article focuses on Kaelyn and Lucy, a long distance (US–UK) lesbian couple who document their relationship on YouTube. Their channel has attracted a following of hundreds of thousands of individuals who profess to ...
Editorial
(2016-03-01)